Categories: Athletics

QUEEN OF TRACK AMANTLE MONTSHO (39) HONORED

BY:Bakang Raphala

The Queen of Track Amantle Montsho had a memorable night yesterday at the 41st Botswana Sports Awards held at Baisago Convention Centre walking home with two awards.

Montsho was honored scooping the Minister’s special award and WASBO Special award respectively.

Minister of Sports, Tumiso Rakgare said Montsho is a true ambassador of Botswana’s dreams and aspirations.

Meanwhile, Sprint Courier’s P10 000 WASBO award for Montsho is said to serve as a source of recognition and appreciation of what she accomplished in her career and show a black girl child that it is possible.

Montsho who officially hanged her spikes last expressed her heartfelt gratitude for having been given the awards.

Below is AMANTLE MONTSHO`S career in brief as per Wikipedia;

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Botswana
2003	All-Africa Games	Abuja, Nigeria	14th (h)	400 m	55.06
2004	African Championships	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	11th (h)	400 m	54.06
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	36th (h)	400 m	53.77 (NR)
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	40th (h)	400 m	53.97
2006	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	15th (sf)	400 m	53.07
2006	African Championships	Bambous, Mauritius	2nd	400 m	52.68
2007	All-Africa Games	Algiers, Algeria	5th	200 m	23.71
	All-Africa Games	Algiers, Algeria	1st	400 m	51.13 (NR)
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	12th (sf)	400 m	50.90 (NR)
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	8th (sf)	400 m	53.21
	African Championships	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1st	400 m	49.83 (CR)
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	8th	400 m	51.18
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	8th	400 m	50.65
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	400 m	52.53
	African Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	1st	400 m	50.03
	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	1st	400 m	49.89
	Commonwealth Games	New Delhi, India	1st	400 m	50.10
	Commonwealth Games	New Delhi, India	6th	4 × 400 m relay	3:38.44
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	1st	400 m	49.56 (NR)
2011	All-Africa Games	Maputo, Mozambique	1st	400 m	50.87
2012	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	1st	400 m	49.54
	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:31.27 (NR)
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	4th	400 m	49.75
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	2nd	400 m	49.41
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	16th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:38.96
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	11th (sf)	400 m	51.28
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	7th	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.00
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	1st	400 m	50.15
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:26.86
2019	African Games	Rabat, Morocco	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:31.96
2021	World Relays	Chorzów, Poland	11th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:34.99
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	–	400 m	DNF